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application to marital property

...12th and early 13th centuries. The wife had her property, the husband his. The only things that they owned together were things that had been conveyed to them together in a form of tenancy known as
tenancy by the entirety (which still exists in a number of American jurisdictions). Tenancy by entirety is like joint tenancy in that the surviving spouse takes the whole of the property upon the...